Re: Watch out! HP P1100 Driver Hell!

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:21:20 -0500

Thanks for the tip on the flash card. Besides disabling the
card read on bootup, did you try just putting a blank, $10
card in the slot? 

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"Oscar Mendoza" <leowise@integra-us.com> wrote in message
news:Ov6G58POEHA.2844@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| I  recently installed the new HP Photosmart 1100 driver on
one of my PCs
| (Dell 4500) with XP Pro SP 1, and ran into trouble; Soon
after I installed
| the new driver (2003) posted in their website all hell
broke loose!! My
| system became EXTREMELY slow, (how about 10-15 min. to
bootup!). While this
| is happening, there is no event logged, or any other info
that will help you
| troubleshoot. Troubleshooting this was tricky , the
printer works fine after
| you install the driver, there is no hint of any error, the
system just hangs
| in some tasks in not in others. After some research, I
found out that for
| some reason the system has trouble coming back from trying
to read a
| non-existent memory card (the P1100 has a slot for one)
which is mapped to
| the system as a storage device (hard drive) that shows up
in the Disk Drives
| listing on Device Manger. Well all that I had to do was to
disabled it, that
| was it, now my system is working just fine! My guess is
that the driver
| designers didn't bother testing the driver - WITHOUT A
MEMORY STICK IN THE
| SLOT!!!
|
| Hope this helps someone!
|
| Leowise
|
|

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